Commentary for Yevamot 54:2

אמר רב אשי ת"ש ומודה ר"ג שיש גט אחר מאמר ומאמר אחר גט

Is she who was divorced to be preferred.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., shall she perform the halizah and thus exempt her rival? Cur. edd. add., 'because he began with her with halizah'. Rashal (Glosses. a.l.) reads, 'divorce' for 'halizah'. Both additions are absent in MSS, v. Tosaf. s.v. [H]) ');">⁴</span> or is, perhaps, she to whom the ma'amar had been addressed to be preferred since she is nearer to him in respect to intercourse? — R. Ashi replied, Come and hear: R. Gamaliel, however, admits<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though he holds that a divorce to one of the widows of his deceased brothers after a divorce to her rival is invalid (infra 50a). ');">⁵</span> that a letter of divorce<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To one of the widows of his deceased childless brother. ');">⁶</span> after a ma'amar,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That had been first addressed to the other widow, her rival. ');">⁷</span> and a ma'amar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To one of the widows of his deceased childless brother. ');">⁶</span>

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